Word Meanings - BURGEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pen (more info) 1. A kind of small coat.

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• TAILBLOCK
  A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• TAILRACE
  The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. (more info) 1. See Race, n., 6.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• TAILORING
  The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
• TAILOR
  The goldfish. Salt-water tailor , the bluefish. Bartlett. -- Tailor bird , any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which
• TAILBOARD
  The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
• TAILED
  Having a tail; having a tail or tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc. Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.
• TAIL-BAY
  One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay. 2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
• TAILAGE
  See TALLAGE
• DISTINGUISH
  di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• TAILORESS
  A female tailor.
• DISTINGUISHABLE
  1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• TAILLE
  Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects. The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock
• DISTINGUISHMENT
  Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.
• TAILING
  The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. Gwilt.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• RAT-TAILED
  Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. Rat-tailed larva , the larva of a fly of the genus Eristalis. See Eristalis. -- Rat-tailed serpent , the fer-de-lance. -- Rat-tailed shrew , the musk shrew.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ENTAIL
  incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- + tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or 1. That which is entailed. Hence: An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue. The rule
• GILTTAIL
  A yellow-tailed worm or larva.
• CAT O' NINE TAILS
  See CAT
• SCISSORSTAIL
  A tyrant flycatcher of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.
• LION'S TAIL
  A genus of labiate plants ; -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
• FORKTAIL
  One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking. A salmon in its fourth year's growth.
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• BOAT-TAIL
  A large grackle or blackbird , found in the Southern United States.
• SPINE-TAILED
  Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
• ROUGHTAIL
  Any species of small ground snakes of the family Uropeltidæ; -- so called from their rough tails.